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Nuts & Bolts Approach. Bliss's success can be measured by the contrast between November 1948 and November 1962. In 1948 Harry Truman carried Ohio, and the G.O.P. lost seven of the eight statewide offices that were at stake. With the party demoralized by defeat and torn by dissension, G.O.P. leaders asked Bliss, longtime chairman in Summit County (Akron), to take over as state chairman. Bliss was far from eager for the job: he had founded his own insurance agency only a few years before, and he wanted to retire from politics. He agreed to serve as chairman only after...
...Golden Boy" was on the bench. Paul Hornung, triple-threat halfback, Most Valuable Player in the National Football League, was sidelined with torn ligaments in his right knee-and for three weeks all the fans saw of him were the cigarette ads on the backs of magazines. But the World Champion Green Bay Packers hardly noticed. The offense scored 86 points, the defense limited its opponents to 26, and the Packers (1962 record: eight wins, no losses) continued unmolested toward their third straight Western Conference championship. Sportswriters asked George Halas, owner of the twice-victimized (49-0, 38-7) Chicago...
...from speculators who prey on them when they are desperate for capital. Says Petersen: "There are always some people who say 'Look, I'll put up $100,000 or so. You take 49% of the action and everything will be fine.' " The young small businessman is torn between his need for more money and loyalty to original investors; often he takes the cash and loses control...
...achieved ever wider cold war fame as one of its most illogical eminences. A wispy, white-maned aristocrat who, like a fictional intellectual once described by Novelist Aldous Huxley, resembles "an extinct saurian." Russell is a brooding, old-fashioned agnostic who for most of his life has been torn between his view that the human race is irredeemably wicked and his conviction that he can save it. At one time he was so critical of Communism that Soviet propaganda labeled him "a philosophizing wolf." As late as 1948 he declared that "anything is better than submission" to Communist dictatorship, even...
...magic, thick woods had been torn down, empty fields were clustered with concrete mixing plants, fuel tanks and mess halls. Chillingly clear to the expert eye were some 40 slim, 52-ft., medium-range missiles, many of them already angled up on their mobile launchers and pointed at the U.S. mainland. With an estimated range of 1,200 miles, these missiles, armed with one-megaton warheads, could reach Houston. St. Louis -or Washington. The bases were located at about ten spots, including Sagua la Grande and Remedios on the northern coast, and San Cristobal and Guanajay on the western...